Study title

European Climate Services User Survey (EU-MACS) 2017

Dataset ID Number

FSD3325

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3325
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3325

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Gregow, Hilppa (Finnish Meteorological Institute. Weather and Climate Change Impact Research)
• Harjanne, Atte (Finnish Meteorological Institute. Weather and Climate Change Impact Research)
• Finnish Meteorological Institute. Weather and Climate Change Impact Research

Abstract

The survey was targeted at users and producers of climate services. It charted climate services available to Europeans as well as their use and development. The study was a part of the EU-MACS project funded by the European Commission (grant agreement ID: 730500).

The producers of climate services were first asked about their role and the quality assurance process in the organisation.

Regarding barriers faced in the development and provision of climate services, the respondents were asked what kind of service their organisation produced, what kinds of economic, social, technological, ethical and legal barriers they had faced and which innovations they considered the most relevant in overcoming the barriers.

The users of climate services were asked about the importance of different characteristics in assessing the quality of climate service providers, purchase costs and resource use related to the use of climate services, and views about joint acquisition of climate services. The political, economic, social, technological, ethical and legal barriers to the use of climate services were charted as well as innovations for overcoming the barriers.

Finally, those who did not use climate services were asked about their reasons for it.

Background variables for both climate service producers and users included the type, country and sector of the organisation, the respondent's role in it, and networks it belonged to.

Keywords

climate; quality control; science; technology and innovation; weather; weather forecasting

Topic Classification

• Natural sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Other (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum für Material und Küstenforschung GmbH

Data Producers

• European Commission

Time Period Covered

2017

Collection Dates

2017-03-26 – 2018-01-19

Nation

Finland, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Geographical Coverage

Finland, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Organization/Institution

Universe

European users of climate services and experts on the topic selected from the networks of the people carrying out the study. They were selected based on their organisations using snowball sampling.

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Respondent-assisted

The respondents were selected from the networks of the people carrying out the study. They were selected based on the organisations they represented using snowball sampling.

Collection Mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: English.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Number of Cases and Variables

349 variables and 163 cases.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The respondents were able to respond to certain groups of questions more than once. They responded to questions q10 - q17_5 twice. The responses of the second round are numbered q10b - q17b_5. The respondents responded to questions q30 - q38_8 three times. The questions of the second and third rounds are numbered accordingly: q30b - q38b_8 and q30c - q37c_2. The third-round responses to questions q38c_1 - q38c_8 were missing information and removed from the data.

Most of the open-ended variables were removed from the data to prevent identification. All open-ended responses of the "Other, which?" format were removed from the data at FSD, with the exception of q20_28 that contains similar information as the preceding dichotomies in the battery. The original researchers had removed all other open-ended responses from the data before data deposition.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Gregow, Hilppa (Finnish Meteorological Institute) & Harjanne, Atte (Finnish Meteorological Institute) & Finnish Meteorological Institute: European Climate Services User Survey (EU-MACS) 2017 [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2019-07-15). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3325; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3325

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Publications

Cortekar, J., Lamich, K.; Otto, J., Pawelek, P. (2017) Review and analysis of climate service market conditions, Deliverable 1.1. EU-MACS European Market for Climate Services. http://eu-macs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/EU-MACS-D11_CLIMATE-SERVICE-MARKET-CONDITIONS.pdf

Perrels, A., Harjanne, A., Pilli-Sihvola, K., Coertekar, J., Lamich, K., Hamaker-Taylor, R., Stegmaier, P., Damm, A. (2018). A Structured Analysis of Obstacles to Uptake of Climate Services and Identification of Policies and Measures to Overcome Obstacles so as to Promote Uptake, Deliverable 5.1. EU-MACS European Market for Climate Services. http://eu-macs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/EUMACS_D51_final-1.pdf

Hoa, E., Perrels, A., Le, Thanh-Tam. (2018). From generating to using climate services - How the EU-MACS and MARCO projects help to unlock the market potential, Climate Services (2018) 86-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2018.08.001